Ever since the Didact appeared in Halo 4, could we see him coming back in the upcoming Halo Infinite? Maybe we can see a rematch between Master Chief and the Didact in Halo Infinite?
Halo Escalation: The Next 72 hours. A very poor comic that takes place after Halo 4 and seals the Didacts fate more or less. Really really disappointing arc, does the Didact and Spartan Team Black extremely wrong.
Quite unlikely. He was killed off (or contained if you want to split hairs) in Halo Escalation for the reason of not allowing him to return in a later Halo title. He was an OK villain but I outright hated him for killing Black Team 
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> Halo Escalation: The Next 72 hours. A very poor comic that takes place after Halo 4 and seals the Didacts fate more or less. Really really disappointing arc, does the Didact and Spartan Team Black extremely wrong.
Ugh…this is so 343i. Just how they built up Jul and then just kill him off in the second H5 cutscene. Not that I really wanted to have Didact back, because the entire ‘bringing back the Forerunners’ stuff has made Halo’s story really muddy. But why introduce characters and then just ignore or kill them in the blink of an eye? I hope Blue Team and Osiris, no matter how badly they were written in H5, are spared that fate in Infinite.
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> > Halo Escalation: The Next 72 hours. A very poor comic that takes place after Halo 4 and seals the Didacts fate more or less. Really really disappointing arc, does the Didact and Spartan Team Black extremely wrong.
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> Ugh…this is so 343i. Just how they built up Jul and then just kill him off in the second H5 cutscene. Not that I really wanted to have Didact back, because the entire ‘bringing back the Forerunners’ stuff has made Halo’s story really muddy. But why introduce characters and then just ignore or kill them in the blink of an eye? I hope Blue Team and Osiris, no matter how badly they were written in H5, are spared that fate in Infinite.
Agreed. Osiris has a lot of potential to be an interesting squad to follow if they are written well next time. Blue Team better not get erased!
Yes, the Didact didn’t dies in escalation, he was COMPOSED, he is still alive, and this is confirmed. 343 in the library edition wrote: “We will see him again in the future”…
Probably coming back in some way, at least mention him in passing.
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> Yes, the Didact didn’t dies in escalation, he was COMPOSED, he is still alive, and this is confirmed. 343 in the library edition wrote: “We will see him again in the future”…
Nope, not dead, unlike Team Black unfortunately… Just a very unceremonious write off to get him out of the way and possibly go back to if they ever wanted to.
If anything they’d probably use him like Palpatine in TRoS and say he was behind everything in Halo 5 using the Cortana fragments from his ship or something like that.
I’ve been saying this since Halo 5 came out! Instead of Cortana suddenly turning evil, its revealed in Infinite that it was actually just a fragment of her that had been corrupted by the Didact in the domain, and then Chief has to go recover the original Cortana, perhaps somewhere on Zeta Halo, or on the Ark, etc. Then later on in the game, once you discover the real Cortana is still out there, you also discover that the Didact had been behind it all and is still out there somewhere.
You could say that its a massive retcon, but it makes perfect sense given the (albeit sloppy) direction that 4 and 5’s narratives were heading towards. And there’s some pretty undeniable evidence at the end of H5, where Cortana is talking to Osiris during the last mission. She literally quotes the Didact’s ending monologue for H4 almost word for word. I always thought that made it pretty explicit that this version of Cortana had been corrupted by the Didact in some way.
I thought Didact was bloody awesome even though you really don’t see him out of cutscenes
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> > Halo Escalation: The Next 72 hours. A very poor comic that takes place after Halo 4 and seals the Didacts fate more or less. Really really disappointing arc, does the Didact and Spartan Team Black extremely wrong.
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> Ugh…this is so 343i. Just how they built up Jul and then just kill him off in the second H5 cutscene. Not that I really wanted to have Didact back, because the entire ‘bringing back the Forerunners’ stuff has made Halo’s story really muddy. But why introduce characters and then just ignore or kill them in the blink of an eye? I hope Blue Team and Osiris, no matter how badly they were written in H5, are spared that fate in Infinite.
I’m glad Brian reed is gone. He committed this blashpemy
I hope he does, there’s a lot of potential for him. Though I do agree the 72 hour story arc was less then ideal for all characters involved.
If the Didact does return (unlikely), he’d most likely be some kind of supped up Promethean Knight.
Now, personally, I’d have used the Escalations arc for the story of Halo 5. They could have had an actual final boss against the Didact, maybe with him as a supped up Promethean Knight. Heck, if they wanted Jul 'Mdama gone they could have made him a boss, maybe driving a Scarab or something.
But no, apparently that kind of creativity was beyond Halo 5’s writers. As a result, we get the Didact dying in a comic most players won’t read, giving them no closure to Halo 4’s story, and Jul 'Mdama, who’s been a main character in a trilogy of books and has a good chunk of Spartan Ops dedicated to him, dies in an anticlimactic CUTSCENE in the FIRST LEVEL of Halo 5.
A bad story with closure will always be superior to a bad story with no closure.